The so-called "Dark Ages" were the centuries following the collapse of the Roman Empire, but, more importantly, a massive cloud layer over the Earth following a massive volcanic eruption in about 535 had a hugely disruptive impact on global agriculture and grazing. So contended Ken Wohletz, a volcanologist at the DoE’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, in a book that appeared in 2001. Warlike tribes from Asia pushed into Europe from the east. From the south, Muslims entered what is now Spain in 701, but were pushed out of what is now France at the Battle of Tours in 732. European recovery was slow, hampered by much, including invasions, but it did occur, as a new civilization developed. As to pagan learning, following the lead of...

Oh, TownHall does? So do The Washington Times and online NewsMax. Does the AP provide news items for radio stations? I believe it does. The Wx Times, as I recall during the years when I was a subscriber, tried to be careful in its use of AP stories, but of late, I notice it has included biased stuff--as has NewsMax. The AP--for visitors from Tashkent, the Associated Press--presents a huge problem that nearly all "media critics" ignore. Other choices exist, as mentioned by others. And Internet sources, like Power Line, provide information that the AP ignores and analyses quite different from the AP's. But the average Joe and Jane, with limited time and little interest, don't go there. If they get a newspaper, and many do not, they...

Mr. Bozell lives in the Washington metro area, where the AP is not a large factor. It is in most other newspaper-served areas. Its reports and analyses consistently favor the left in politics and culture. For example, the AP’s Scott Bauer led his report with this: “It took Scott Walker only a few weeks to push the Capitol into political chaos.” The loud mob jamming the Capitol, banging drums, and shouting, teachers skipping classes with faked medical slips, and the Democratic legislators fleeing to Illinois? Mr. Bauer did not blame them for “political chaos.” He loaded the rest of his article against the governor. The AP is partisan, propagandistic, incompetent, and corrupt, not characteristics one wants in the country's only national...

Ms. Saunders’s column puzzles. It mixes some wise and correct observations with some that are neither. The latter are addressed elsewhere here. It seems best to fix on the AP list to which she referred. The Associated Press sadly is now partisan, sometimes propagandistic, on politics and culture, but also often incompetent and corrupt, perhaps because of staffers’ ideological zeal.

Calvin Woodward’s 691-word article of 13 November ran six sets of alleged facts disputing Gov. Palin, with the sixth “facts” the choicest. Here are the story’s last two paragraphs:

“PALIN: ‘Was it ambition? I didn't think so. Ambition drives; purpose beckons.’ Throughout the book, Palin cites altruistic reasons for running for office, and for...

Ms. Ensler said , “I think that idea that she doesn’t believe in global warming and she could actually run for vice president, and we have a country where that is possible, it seems insane.” "

Last December 9, in an op-ed for The Washington Post, Sarah Palin wrote, “Our representatives in Copenhagen should remember that good environmental policymaking is about weighing real-world costs and benefits -- not pursuing a political agenda. That's not to say I deny the reality of some changes in climate -- far from it. I saw the impact of changing weather patterns firsthand while serving as governor of our only Arctic state. I was one of the first governors to create a subcabinet to deal specifically with the issue and to recommend...

I wish there were a way to contact Mr. Medved or someone here. The article is loaded with missing apostrophes., e.g., years instead of year's. I spotted a missing comma that looked bad & a missing plural : x x x more-or-less typical for off-years contest, x xx should be x xx more-or-less typical for off-years contests x x x.

I've only had a few minutes to read the piece and don't have the time to read further or to spend an hour to find a way to communicate with someone. I hope someone in charge will spot this comment, try to fix the problem, and rub out the comment.

On a more substantive level, I'm not sure that the lefty claims are lies. One has to know that one is saying something false to tell a lie. These people,...